"when police are no longer perceived as the agent of law, of the legal order, but as just another..."

“when police are no longer perceived as the agent of law, of the legal order, but as just another violent social agent, protests against the predominant social order also tend to take a different turn: that of exploding “abstract negativity” – in short, raw, aimless violence.”



- SLAVOJ ZIZEK http://alterities.tumblr.com/post/115731436916

"It is not enough to “sacrifice everything”; one still has to renounce the subjective economy in..."

“It is not enough to “sacrifice everything”; one still has to renounce the subjective economy in which sacrifice leads to narcissistic jouissance.”



- SLAVOJ ZIZEK on the hidden enjoyment of playing the victim who sacrifices
http://alterities.tumblr.com/post/115665475493

"Woman ..appears to the obsessive as possessing ..self-destructive jouissance. The obsessive will..."

“Woman ..appears to the obsessive as possessing ..self-destructive jouissance. The obsessive will ..save her from her own jouissance, even if it comes at the cost of her destruction.”



- SLAVOJ ZIZEK http://alterities.tumblr.com/post/115588690011

"The subject is internal to the substantial Other because he is identified with the blockage, the..."

“The subject is internal to the substantial Other because he is identified with the blockage, the “impossibility” of arriving at a closed self-identity.”



- SLAVOJ ZIZEK http://alterities.tumblr.com/post/115482781441

all authentic beliefs ..cannot be based on a chain of reasoning-...

all authentic beliefs ..cannot be based on a chain of reasoning

- SLAVOJ ZIZEK

http://alterities.tumblr.com/post/115427590256

"woman’s impossibility of achieving an identity with herself ..is why woman is a symptom of man"

“woman’s impossibility of achieving an identity with herself ..is why woman is a symptom of man”



- SLAVOJ ZIZEK http://alterities.tumblr.com/post/115279690242

"Sacrifice is ultimately the gesture by means of which we aim at compensating the guilt imposed by..."

“Sacrifice is ultimately the gesture by means of which we aim at compensating the guilt imposed by the impossible superego injunction.”



- SLAVOJ ZIZEK http://alterities.tumblr.com/post/115264611416